A Power We Call God by RVM - HTML preview

Chapter 11

10 Steps to Spiritual Fulfillment

The world believes in something that is quite different from what I believe in. The world believes that God exists in Temples, Churches or Mosques. But is that true? If it is, then why hasn’t somebody met God, discovered God or can say where God is? The fact is God is omnipresent. God is a power beyond our comprehension and way beyond our imagination. God is vast! We are incapable of explaining God or understanding God.

Therefore, how does one achieve spiritual fulfillment? How can one truly believe? If you have reached up to the end of this book, you surely aspire to connect with God; you want to pray and you want to believe. Spiritual fulfillment can be achieved in 10 simple steps.

The 1st step is to UNDERSTAND GOD.   Who is god? God is a Creator, a Power. God need not be given names because nobody knows exactly who God is, but we all know that the Power exists. We don’t know where or what, but we are sure that somebody made the whole universe and made you and me. Therefore, we must first understand that there is a Creator; who we call God!  The 2nd step is to ACCEPT GOD – accept that there is God; a Creator. While the first step is to understand, the second step is to accept God. This happens when we live with the knowledge that there is a Creator whom we call God, a very powerful energy who created everything. So the second step is to accept this Power and make this Power real in our life.  The 3rd step is BELIEF in this Power. While the first step is to understand that the Power exists and the second step is to accept that Power; we actually progress when we believe in this Power. At this stage all our feelings, actions and behaviors show that we understand and accept God. This is a step that takes us forward in the journey of spiritual fulfillment. Those who believe in God don’t doubt.   They understand that the Sun, the Moon, the stars, the birds and the flowers are all creations of the Creator. Their entire life is a testimony to the existence of the Power; the Creator. So now that you Understand, Accept and Believe- What next? The next step, the 4th step, to spiritual fulfillment is to have FAITH. You already know the acronym of FAITH - Full Assurance in the Heart- but now you put your faith in the Power. There is no doubt; you are completely and unconditionally confident about that Power. You know that the Power is supreme and you know that the Power can do anything. Your entire life is thus lived in a way that you have no fear; you have no doubt because you have full assurance in your heart.  After you Understand, Accept and Believe that a Power exists, and you have Faith that this Power is very strong and is in complete control of the universe; then the 5th step is that you must have HOPE. You must live Having Only Positive Expectations. You must have hope that the Creator is a Power beyond human imagination and this Creator can do anything. Your hope is capable of hoping for the impossible. It is capable of asking for miracles, if you believe that it is possible. If you have hope, you believe that the sky is not the limit. Of course all expectations must be Positive for hope to work. Halfway down spiritual fulfillment, the 6th step is to have TRUST. TRUST is Total Reliance and Unconditional Surrender To The Almighty. Trust is never 99.9%; it is either 100% or 0. Therefore Trust, and Trust completely, if you want to be a true believer who aspires to attain spiritual fulfillment. You must trust this Power so much that nothing should be able to make you lose your courage, confidence, hope and faith. Your trust in the Creator must be so complete that there shouldn’t be even an iota of doubt or hesitation in your life. When you live this way, with trust; you are surely on your way to spiritual fulfillment. Once you have finished these 6 steps, you go on to living the 7th step - ENTHUSIASM. When you have “en theos” (“in God”) it means you live in God, believe in God, trust in God, hope in God and have faith in God. After you climb the first 7 steps- when you Understand, Accept, Believe, live with Faith, Hope, Trust and Enthusiasm; you then go on to the 8th step - SURRENDER- complete surrender. Like a feather surrenders itself to the air or like a leaf that surrenders  itself to the